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The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1887-06-10

From the report of the proceedings
against the sellers of liquor on Sunday in
New York we clip the following:
The accused hotel men appeared with
Colonel Robert G. Ingersoll and Mr.. Ed
ward Andrews as their counsel. Mr.. An
drews said that the statute had been mis-
interpreted. Colonel Ingersoll then spoke
for half In hour, during which he said: 81
deny that any legislators have a right to
dictate to me in my rooms. in my house or
in my hotel what | shall eat or drink"
Rats. Robert, rats. Time enough to
deny it when any body asserts it. The
rankest prohibitory law ever passed out
side the Bible never went that far, and we
nave never yet heard an advocate ofProhi-
bition who advanced any such idea. 1t is
the old stock argument which the OPP
ponents of temperance use to knock down
men Of straw. II is about on 4 par with
the old retort Of the sympathizers with
slavery, when the rights Of the colored
race were advocated, $40 you ant Your
daughter to marry a nigger?" That set
tied it. OF course the advocate of equal
rights did not want his daughter to do any
such imprudent act, ergo, according to pro-
slavery logic, the black mar had no rights.
OF course no Legislature has a right to
say what a man shall eat or drink, there
fore, according to rumsellers logic, the leg
islature has no power to regulate the sale
of intoxieants, or to prohibit it when the
good order and good morals Of the COM
munity require it. But the legislators
seem to go right III nevertheless. They
nave an undoubted right to say that in
order to preserve the s%anetity and peace Of
the Sabbath rum shall not be sold on that
day any more than a horse or COW shall
be sold, and that it shall not be sold at a
hotel table any more than over a hotel bar.
The law does not say that Mr.. lngersoll
shall not enjoy a beefstaak for his Sunday
breakfast, and nobody claims hat it has a
right to, but it does say that the butcher
that furnishes the steak shall not keep
p shop on Sunday to sell it to him, and
nobody disputes the right to say so and to
enforce its say so with legal penalties.
Let that argument go, Robert, and try
something else.
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worKfngmen Warned Il SHHn
and bc Temperate.

Who support the saloons Certainly not
the wealthy people; they seldom enter any
establishment that may be called by that
name. It IS the poor, foolish -workingman
who allows himself 70 be bled thai lhe
liquor traffic may live. In one Of our fac
tory cities in Massachusetts. with i. 600
operatives, there are 30 public saloons. or
one to every forty. Thae is to say. forty
working people are supposed TO support a
saloon. When you consider that ont Of
those 5000 operatives there must be sew
eral thousand who never use liquor, you
can readily see how heavy this blood tax
is upon the people that drink. And We
can also see why so many are in misery
and degradation. perfect strangers to hap
piness, contentmenf. always paying rent.
and always in debt.
Workingmen, open your eyes, Protect
your labor: save your earnings. Yoa are
ia a great contest FOR your rights; you need
clear heads; you need manhood, which
teaches You to make the most Of every
day, which enables yoI to earn and to en-
joy. Labor IS the badge Of manhood.
Labor is the noblest title in America. It
is the key to American success. Intern
perance has already swept out Of life more
than wal and famine have destroyed. It's
scythc is still deep in the harvest. Men
are still falling beneath It. BE men. Break
off every chain Of slavery. Protect your
labor from the tyranny Of drink. If you
are going to be Knights Of Labor and
struggle for yonr rights, be also knights
of temperance. Preserve the powers given
by God to enable you to earn, and when
you have earned, to purchase happiness,
comfort, and independence, and not
misery, misfortune, aud slavery, ior these
are the fruits Of incompetence. Labor has
too no bic a mission TO be allowed to be-
come a handmade Of intemperanec.-
Catholic World.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1887-06-10

M sc EAA+H 80
The prey Of the winds aud the prey OF ih'
cold.
Cheeks that are shranken,
Eves that are sunken,
Lips that were never DER bold,
Only q woman, foIsaken and poor,
Asking aims al the bronze church door.
Ilark to the organ, roll upon roll
The waves Of It's music go over her soul,
silks rustic past her
Thicker and faster
The great bell ceases lis toll.
Fain would she enter, but not FOR the poor,
Swingeth wide open The bronze church door.
Only a woman, waiting alone,
Iciy cold on an ice cold throne.
What do they care for her?
Munbiing a prayer for her
Giving not bread for 4 stone
Under rich Ilces their hanghiy hearts i~slt,
Mockine the wees Of their kin ia the street.
Only a woman. In the old days
Hope caroied 10 her The happie>t lays
somebody missed her,
somebody kissed her:
Somebody crowned her with praise:
Somebody faced up the battle OF life
strong for her sake who WAS mother ar
wife.
somebody lies wi'ha tres OF her hair
Light on his heart, wher- the desth 5hadnWs
are.
Somebody waits TOR her,
Opening the gales for her,
Giving delight for despair:
only Il wouian-nevernore poor
Dead in the snow at The bronze church door
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"A On G

The liquor league has muzzled the ton
que aud awed into silence the pen Of our
mighty iaen in thought and speech. They
dare not speak out in defense of our i'm
periled homes and our whisky-stricken
and distressed manhood. Were they to
allow their eyes to see what can be seen,
they would behold our noble womanhood
loading the midnight air with agonizing
cries over lost and rum-murdered sons.
They would heal the pitiful plcadings of
helpless children asking for the bread and
clothes, the care aud comfort that drunken
fathers have inhumanly sacrificed upon the
altar Of drink. But such cries and plead
ings are Of no avail in the rum-sodden ears
of our would-be great leaders. They hear
and heed the faintest word Of command
the saloons utters, but deaf they are to the
higher claims of outraged humanity. But
the stern tread Of a deep r~eg0luti onary I'M
rest is moving society to redress and
avcnge all this blood-guilty work OF rum.
1t can not longer be delayed. The cup of
the Ubiquitous traffic IS all ready fall.
Relief must come. God wills it. And the
people must move-must speak-and have
the ballot-box right the wrong-doings of
rum. Wait not on cowardly statesmen.
They are saloon slayes-soul and body sold
to the liquor leaguc.-IHe Issue.
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"Why don't you attend church ." said a
minister of the gospel to a business man,
who was known as a prohibition party
crank. The reply was: III You will point
to one act performed, one sentence uttered,
or one comment given by the great prohi-
bitionist Of old, who upset the tables ofthe
gamblers without the sanction OF the COM
nor council, that will furnish you a rea-
sonable excuse for ignoring the prohibition
question as you do, | will come and
hear you preach every Sunday, otherwise !
cannot feel it my duty to hear you preach
at ALL" This reason is sound. The
preacher who fails to declare the whole
truth in regard to the evils which threaten
us, no matter which political party is hurt,
is unworthy to be called a minister, Such
a minister is like a Waterman upon the
walls who sees The danger coming. bat
fails to give the warning charlotte,
Mich., Prohibitionisf.
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Said the noble Governor Dutton

Said the noble Governor Dutton of
Connecticut, in 1854:
moral suasion is useless except with
moral men. When men are governed
merely by appetite or love Of gain, moral
suasion has no effect. Legal suasion saves
breath and labor, and accomplishes the OBJ
jeet in the simplest possible manner.
"1What methods will carry ten perance
reformation to full and abiding success Z?
Both methods, moral suasion and legal
prohibition. | recently summarized the
answer to this question in these words:
"Tlley cooperate and complement each
other. Moral suasion deals chiefly with
the drinker; prohibition with the drink
supplicr. Moral suasion is chiefly con-
cerned with the welfare of the individual;
prohibition with the welfare of society.
Moral suasion says to the individual, DO
right for rights sake Prohibition a
to society. 'You shall not have the means
of destroying the individual Moral
snasion is useless except with moral people.
Prohibition provides moral safety for those
whom moral suasion cannot reach"
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1887-06-10

In the Massachusetts, House of Rep
resentatiyes Wednesday the proposed pro-
hibitory amendment TO the State Consti-
fntion failed for want of a two-thirds vote.
of the 142 members recorded in favor Of
the measure 12G were Republicans, 10 were
Democrats, ! Independent Republican, I
Independent Democrat and ! Independent.
OF the n recorded against it Il were Re-
publicans, IS Democrats and 2 Independ-
cnt Democrats.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1887-06-10

Rum and prosperity will not 90 togeth-
er, either in the family or in the commu-
nifty. 1t is settled by bitter experience
that they won't combine in the family,
and as the prosperity Of the community de-
ponds Gpon the prosperity Of the family, it
does not need saying that the same holds
true of the community. The sooner peo-
pie realize this fact and act accordingly,
the better it will be all around. If any
body is in doubt as to the real nature Of
the rum traffic, and is disposed to take a
lenient view Of it, a review OF some OF its
methods during the past iew months
ought to be sufficient to settle their minds
Oh the subject once for all. The people
must down the ram business OF the
rum business will down the people.
There is no alternative, ana no conpro-
mise. Rum wants the earth, to do as it
pleases in, and is making desperate efforts
to get it. There are a good many people
who think it ought not to have il. There
are some others who are willing TO divide
for the sake Of peace. But the only rule
of division the rum business knows any
thing about is to divide by l, and leave no
remainder, taking the whole quotient for
its share. The question has got down to
this, and It is in the best possible shape for
settlement: Shall rum or the people
rule?
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1887-06-10

In India. the land has been covered with
dram shops by Americans, and a drunken
Hindoo is called by his sober countrymen,
'one of Jesus Christ's mem How can we
expect that tile heather will rave any
faith in our religion when we not only allow
the liquor traffic to rule our own country.
but send it off to curse foreign lands. But
DIR. Crosby and many other profess
Christians seem to think it IS all right as
we get some reYcnnc for it. The ". c. r.
l., have taken the best methods Of attack
ing the monster that blocks tho wheels OF
government, church and pulpit, and makes
wanton havoc of orr men OF brightest
minds. The cannibals fought their foes,
killed and ate them. but never licensed the
killing of their own children. That was
left for Christian civilization to do. Men
think about this evil, but women act.
Men wait until a more convenient season,
but those who do, never find it. Men will
do a thing provided it will not hurt their
party. Women will do it If it is right.
The women are training the children and
are betting the world with prohibitory
agencies. They teach the children in
church, Band of Hope and in the public
and Sunday schools, in the street and in
the home. All this ought to have been
done fifty years ago. 1t was then much
easier to destroy the traffic than now, and
it becomes more difficult every added year.
Therefore dear reader do not delay another
hour; IL country needs your aid in work
ing out this much needed reform, decide
now; which will you help to protect, the
homes or the saloons =? You CANNOT PRO-
TECT ROTH.-Estk6r P41H.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1887-06-10

The list of martyrs is increaslng-fIad-
dock, Northup, Gambrcll; churches burn
ed; council rooms blown mp; respectable
citizens driven from the polls; men called
to their doors to be shot; women insnlted
these are the natural results Of the rum
traffic. 1t only needs to push the monster
and his purring gives place to the
tigers claws, and the tiger's stcalthy
spring, and the tigers teeth and thirst
for blood. Let him be pushed more
and more by any means and by every
means that seem best to those
who hate him till all men shall say, lie
shall be destroyed !-1deoeatc.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1887-06-10

Pat more purity into politics and there
will be more justice in our courts. For
years the cry has been ''Keep politics ont
Of the churches" The saloons threw their
doors open, and politics, having no other
home to go to, accepted the invitation,
walked in and took a seat. Now it fights
openly for the landlord who rave it
shelter, and the saloon is master Of both
camps, What is wanted now is a new
power that can face and overcome this
monopoly in crime that has its hands on
the throat of every agency that should be
gsed to bring about its downfall.-Nep
York Witness.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1887-06-10
Ice Cream Parlors Now Omen

Att new stand in Turner's Building south
OF Post O1liec, same side OF street.
ICE CREAM, ATER ICES, FINE CAKES,
FRUITS, NUTS, ETC.
EVERYTHING 60 NEW = AND FRESH
- Also ON hand anything in the baking
line. Fancy Crealns-all iiayors; Frozen Gus
Yards and Frozen Fruits, French Meringues,
made To order.
All orders promptly attended to. Families
supplied mt short notice-Goods delivered.
FRANK G. MOUNT, Prop'r,
Ttr.ga IN
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MONDAY, JUNE 10, 1887.

The draw Will be on during the hours from
GP. NJ. until s A.. M, 10 allow farmers getting
1heir milk and other produce TO market.
II Is expected that The repairs will be com
plctcd in about a weeks working time.
Il. f. HAYNES,
LEWIS Fox.
WILLIAM WELL
Juncl0lt Committee,
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1887-06-10

William A. Wheeler, ex-Yice-Preslden
of the United States, died on Saturday
morning, in the sixty-eighth year Of his
age,
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1887-06-10

43s WINS Lawrence, game warden, II N
4S9 Sept. meeting OF Freeholders, - X
40 William Carney, constable, Is
~ Robert S Bunting, clothing for 80
4B ] Foreman Sinnickson, services
in the matter of vacating Ca
nal bridge, I0m
IA } T Garwood Il Co, labor and ma
terial, a5m
~ II c Counsellor, %janitor, n "a
AS Chas Rice, tending PENIS Neck
bridge, lisa
AS E T. Long, cartiDg, -
40 NJ Gun, cleaning sink at jail, 2I On
40 Paul Erhardt, labor and material. Ii ~
45l j w Acton. Mayor, commitments, Il s.
452 November meeting of Freeholdcrs. % -
453 w Graham Tyler, gas rent, I ~
44 Tuft & For, horse hire, n ~
49, Rebate of > Ffench's license,
Woodstown, 40
4jG Walter w Acton, City Treasurer,
water rent, 800
I57 J G. Brooks. constable, II 81
45S y III Shape, quarters salary, 90 IN
$50 Edward Cumberland tending
PENIS Neck bridge, "a "a
80 Z Dunn & Co, soldiers burial, * "a
56l Clinton Kelly, Sheriff, transport
ing prisoners, Al
42 Wm Carney, constable, 5m
i3 } W Acton, bill of costs, State KS.
Jacob Weimer, 30
46i L Chamberlain, tending Penn's
Neck bridge, 80 %
4j EN- Cuff, cleaning sinks at jail, q IN
4G } W Acton, Mayor commitments, 81 a,
iG7 Decemberlneeting ofFreehoiders. ~ -
rs Quinton i Harris, County Col
lector, salary, 800 90
laws, 10
$53325 %
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BRIDGE NOTICE.

draw of PENIS Neck iron bridge,
needing repairs, travel over the same
he suspended except AT stated hours) on
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Annual Report

OF d.. HAItRlS SMITH, Treasurer of the Sur
Plus FUND of salem County for the year end
ing May II, lSs6.
The bonds and mortgages in possession of
the treasurer OF said fund are as follows:
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Only q Woman.

Only "a woman, -hriyeled and ola
The prey Of the winds and the prey OF The
cold.
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balance at settlement, So
Aims House.

ATTEST.
JoHN =. FLYNN,
Clerk of Committee.
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BY amt. OF Surplus Fund
held by Salem County on
certificates os fnIlous.
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west ward.salem-Alle

Allen & Westcott,
horse hire. sec
voucher No. ldj,
W Ward,
J G. Ballinger,
matches and oil
Tor public build
ings, see voucher
No 1914, West
Ward,
I G Ballinger,
matches for pub
lie buildings, sec
voucher ~, "
Ward.
The Delta independent., 1887-03-15
By Lights and Shadows.

Up q rickety flight of steps on the
west side, kept in continual tire NOR by
the pulsations of a huge engine in the
basement beneath, is room of modest
appointments. Bending over one Of
the benches in it may be seen almost
any day a man of 20 years. Time.
which has laid the frost of age upon
his head. seems to have kindled afresh
the sparkle in his clear. steady eyes.
The windows of the room look out upon
q busy thoroughfare. Against one Of
these hangs plate of ground glass q
little more than foot square. Across
this plate it fastened horizontally a bar
of ebony three eighths of an inch wide.
Standing twenty or more feet from the
plate, the old man lays gun barrel
upon convenient rest in such way
that its aim is directly at the ebony
bar. STOPPING, he looks through the
barrel from the rear. turning it slowly
around and adjusting it from time to
time with extreme care and nicely.
would you like to take peep?" he
asks, good humoredly.
Putting your eye to the butt you SEQ
two fine lines or shades cast into the
barrel by the ebony bar. They join at
the further end and gradually diverge.
No break occurs in them-the barrel il
perfect.
Another barrel is laid on the rest and
its position accurately adjusted. Look
ing through it you see the shades cast
by the bar broken at several places
the barrel is crooked and imperfect.
Taking it from the rest the operator
lays it upon huge block of hardwood
and strikes it here heavy blow and
then light one, graduating the force
with great delicacy. Again the sight
is fixed on the bar and an observation
of the shades made. the alternate sight
ing and hammering being repeated un-
til the lines of shade show no break.
After each hammering the barrel is re-
bored. Toward the last almost imper-
ceptible crooks, known as "kinks," ap-
pear, and as the barrel approaches per-
fection greater and greater skill Is
called for in its manipulation. Thus II
is that gun barrel is Strengthened.
The shades show the most minute i'm
perfections. Chicago NeUs.
The Delta independent., 1887-03-15
An American Sensation.

lib Libney. an intensely colored fei
low, had been taught to believe that
money is the source of all greatness.
He mad belonged. as the saying goes,
20 rich man Eeiore the war and, after
he great settlement between the races,
had partaken so much of the white
mans nature that he thought that one
dollar in money was worth more in the
affairs of life than hundreds of dollars
worth of that commodity which is
known as standing in society. Living
on farm near Zib was young widow
named Babb. Mrs Babb was the widow
of a government teamster. Her husband
had done such good work that he had ae-
quired quite farm. His death made
his widow an object Of attraction. Pre-
vious to marriage his wife might have
been q pug-nosed creature, but when
she was left widow, with a good farm,
she was woman of hadsome appear
anse. lib courted her and she, know
ing that he was man Of standing, ac-
cepted him. The honeymoon may
have been pleasant, but the moon which
arose afterward was not so enjoyable.
The woman discovered that her hus-
band had married her for her farm.
He said nothing which might have
caused such a suspicion, but when he
knocked her down and kicked her, she
thought that he did not love her. This
is contrary to "Uncle Toms Cabin, :"
but it is fact. Unfortunately. many
things are in opposition to that
great drama. That fair matron filed a
bill for divorce. She evidently did not
love her husband. She declared that
she did, but when she took up q ladle
full of hot grease and emptied it on lib,
her neighbors began to believe that
there was something wrong. Neigh
bors, it is true, are suspicious, but in
this case they had a right to believe
that the wife was hasy. When the
trial for divorce came up, the Judge
asked if there were any reasons why
the woman desired to be freed from
the man. She said that there were
not, only that they hated each other
and that if they lived together they
would die. Tho Judge laughed at
this and said that the parties
ought to go home. but the wise
persons who were present knew that a
crisis was at hand. What was the
crisis? lib took change of venue
The only way to defeat justice in Ar
kansaw is to take change of venue.
lib knew this. If he hadn't known
it he wouldn't have done it. The
divorce was granted. The newspape
were alive with it. The northern
publications bristled with it Special
correspondents were sent out. 1t was
terrible. The papers published it as a
great outrage. People who were
acquainted with the facts could see
nothing in it, but people who lived at a
distance were Mortified. Dispatches
were sent to England and the press of
that country became sensational.
After awhile our own northern papers
will print something true about the
south, but at present nothing can be
expected. The northern papers are
English and must follow a certain
style, but they will doubtless event.
ually print something that is true
Ark0nsdto Iraueier.